By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created. Piet Mondrian More Quotes by Piet Mondrian More Quotes From Piet Mondrian Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms. Piet Mondrian size planes color Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing. Piet Mondrian why everything principal relationship True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm. Piet Mondrian true construction painting appearance It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right. Piet Mondrian pictures picture right important Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative. Piet Mondrian just pure abstract art If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. Piet Mondrian aesthetic beauty life art The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. Piet Mondrian size color space time The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him). Piet Mondrian man harmony freedom desire Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form. Piet Mondrian dynamic which rhythm art Art is the path to being spiritual. Piet Mondrian being path spiritual art I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction. Piet Mondrian need never economy expression I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. Piet Mondrian contemplation architecture want time We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves. Piet Mondrian words name need language The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian he position artist humble To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting. Piet Mondrian picture painting existence real Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances. Piet Mondrian us only confusion reality I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art. Piet Mondrian i-think think too-much art I came to the destruction of volume by the use of the plane. This I accomplished by means of lines cutting the planes. But still, the plane remained too intact. So I came to making only lines and brought the colour within the lines. Now the only problem was to destroy these lines also through mutual oppositions. Piet Mondrian destroy colour lines problem The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic. Piet Mondrian degree express he artist Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium. Piet Mondrian never always expression art
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